All Your Data Belongs to Us: the Electronic Patient File from a Data Protection Perspective

At last – as of 2021 every health insurance customer will be legally entitled to an electronic patient file. But how secure is a patient’s health data on digital media? The Doxing scandal in January 2019 showed that it is possible to hack into and infiltrate even the most secure networks. Are Germany’s high levels of data protection an obstacle to introducing the electronic patient file or a guarantee that patients will be in control of their data?

This session is organised and held by The German Association of Health IT Vendors – bvitg e. V.